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The World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Celebration Update Goes Live 23 October!

Join the celebration as World of Warcraft celebrates its 20th Anniversary with new activities and myriad ways to earn currency.

When: 23 October 2024 – 7 January 2025
Where: Outside the Caverns of Time in Tanaris

Here’s what you can look forward to during the 20th Anniversary Celebration:

• Earn and spend a new currency— Bronze Celebration Tokens— to spend on new items for your collection.
• Engage in the Blackrock Depths Raid dungeon
• Collect Iconic Tier 2 transmog appearance sets
• Go Timewalking through Classic World of Warcraft Dungeons
• Earn a New Mount, Blizzard Employee Service Award cosmetics, and More
• Celebrate with an expanded event at the Caverns of Time
• Join Chromie on a new time-bending adventure with the Codex of Chromie
• Discover new secrets and solve them with Guest Relations
• Defeat Party-Crashing World Bosses including the Sha of Anger and Archavon the Stonewatcher
• Go back for some PvP revenge during Korrak’s Revenge in Alterac Valley
• Celebrate 30 Years of Warcraft with Warcraft III themed back appearances on the Trading Post

Accept Your Invitation

Players level 10 and up will receive the quest, “Another Timely Invitation,” inviting them to the celebration in Tanaris outside the Caverns of Time. You’ll speak with Yllana to turn in your quest and then pick up some one-time quests to learn more about the event.

Grab all the celebration details from our World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary Celebration article.

Go on a Shopping Spree During the WoW 20th Anniversary Celebration

The WoW 20th Anniversary introduces a variety of new activities and ways to earn currency during the event, which can be used to purchase myriad items including iconic Tier 2 transmog appearance sets. We’ve consulted top goblins and tallied it all up so that you know how to earn these currencies and where you can spend them.

Players will also automatically be granted a 10% experience and reputation buff during the Anniversary and can add an additional 10% experience and reputation buff by completing the repeatable “Celebrate Good Fun” quest with Yllana. This buff will not countdown while offline and will be offered to you again once per day when it expires.

Developer Insights: For the Anniversary event, we want these epic new rewards to feel both special to players and well-earned. To that end, we have worked to create a rewarding system that should help players earn their first Tier 2 set in the first 2-3 weeks, depending upon their play style. We know that there are a lot of people who are excited to earn more sets if not all of them. To accommodate this, we have both discounts and increased abilities to earn currency that kick in after those early weeks (detailed further below). This should allow players who play through the event regularly to have the ability to earn all thirteen of these Tier Sets and many, if not all of the other new cosmetic rewards tied to the anniversary. If you run out of time this year, don’t worry; we will have the sets available from the anniversary event in future years.

Learn all the details about currency types, anniversary vendors, Tier 2 armor appearances, and more from our previously published article. 

Cataclysm Classic: Rage of the Firelands Update on 30 October; Firelands Raid on 7 November

Calling defenders of Azeroth to brave the inferno and push back against Ragnaros and his wayward loyalists—the Rage of the Firelands update arrives on 30 October, followed by the Firelands Raid on 7 November.

The Rage of the Firelands content update will burn an indelible mark in Azeroth's history. Take on the new Elemental Bonds questline, and increase the challenges for powerful rewards with the new Elemental Rune Dungeons: Protocol Inferno difficulty option. Then, soon after the update, the legendary Firelands Raid arrives with its Raid tier armor and weapons, two new mounts, Achievements, and seven unique boss encounters.

This will also be the stop for Druid, Mage, Priest, Shaman, or Warlock in their quest to build the legendary staff Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest, a weapon of unsurpassed quality that requires a spectacular effort to construct. Like the Shadowmourne questline in Wrath of the Lich King Classic, adjustments have been made to make Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest, faster to acquire on both 10 and 25-player raid sizes.

More details await you in our previously published article.

Cataclysm Classic: The Joyous Journeys 50% Experience Buff Returns

The time to strike at Ragnaros the Firelord draws near. For all champions daring to begin a new adventure or continue their odyssey in Azeroth, you can prepare for the heat when you take advantage of the Joyous Journeys experience buff*, which increases experience gains by 50% for all players up to level 85!

Finish leveling a character, create a new one, or invite friends to join you in Cataclysm Classic. The buff is active by default, but you can visit any innkeeper in the capital cities and Dalaran to turn it off or on again.

Take advantage of the Joyous Journey’s experience buff now. It’s an excellent opportunity for new and returning players to level up and join the defenders of Hyjal as they fight to create a foothold in the Firelands at the Molten Front before the Ragnaros makes his grand entrance in the Rage of the Firelands content update.

Chilling Sounds of World of Warcraft

Carve ghoulish gourds and sinister-looking squash when you take an auditory adventure through the eeriest soundscapes of Azeroth:

00:00:00 – Crypt by Russell Brower
00:01:38 – Haunted by Russell Brower, Jason Hayes
00:07:03 – Cursed by Derek Duke
00:19:02 – Scarlet Monastery by Jeremy Soule
00:23:00 – Azj-Kahet by Jake Lefkowitz, Leo Kaliski
00:33:17 – Nathria by Grant Kirkhope, Jake Lefkowitz
00:45:00 – Karazhan by Russell Brower
01:30:30 – “Scholomance” by Jeremy Soule

Follow along on the official World of Warcraft news site for all the latest developments as we journey through the week together.